Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Strategic Patents, P.C. - Sphs

13 pending office actions • 1 client • 13 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=2048 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

73.0%
Allowance Rate
n=2048
+0.42σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=2048
3.4
OAs to Allowance
n=909
-0.20σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=909
1032 days
Time to Allowance
n=909
+24.3pp
Interview Lift
n=2048
29.2%
RCE Rate
n=2048
0.5%
Appeal Rate
n=2048

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

33.8%
§101 Overcome
n=71
53.7%
§102 Overcome
n=175
69.6%
§103 Overcome
n=751
96.7%
§112 Overcome
n=60

Specialization & Scale

H04L, G06F, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
46%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=2048
0
Practitioners
n=2048
Apps / Practitioner
n=2048 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (85%)
§102 only1 (8%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
11
Information Tech
85% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
15% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
JHAVERI, JAYESH M 1 83.0% +30.8%
LANIER, BENJAMIN E 1 69.2% +17.3%
HUANG, CHENG-FENG 1 87.5% +17.1%
MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 1 89.7% +8.7%
PARK, SANGSEOK 1 84.0% +16.0%
SUH, ANDREW 1 79.2% +40.0%
NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 1 77.8% +24.0%
ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 1 78.3% +6.4%
ALI, AFAQ 1 89.8% +13.3%
EYERS, DUSTIN D 1 57.6% +22.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18823903 ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS CONNECTOR FOR CUSTOMER PREMISES PARK, SANGSEOK 51d overdue
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 21d
19071591 AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS JHAVERI, JAYESH M
18763507 RULES PROCESSING SYSTEM ALI, AFAQ

Interview Candidates (8)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18823903 ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS CONNECTOR FOR CUSTOMER PREMISES PARK, SANGSEOK 51d overdue
18823962 LOAD BALANCING FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE SUH, ANDREW 16d
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING HUANG, CHENG-FENG 21d
19071591 AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS JHAVERI, JAYESH M
19067952 Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments LANIER, BENJAMIN E
18823936 WEBSOCKET SERVER FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE NARRAMORE, BLAKE I
18763507 RULES PROCESSING SYSTEM ALI, AFAQ
18653769 AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EYERS, DUSTIN D

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
SOPHOS LIMITED 13

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
24972
24322
24991
24931
24381
24961
24341
21641
24431

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19071591 AUGMENTED SECURITY RECOGNITION TASKS Sophos Limited JHAVERI, JAYESH M §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 05, 2025
19067952 Compound threat detections in cloud computing environments Sophos Limited LANIER, BENJAMIN E §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 02, 2025
18925829 FIREWALL OFFLOADING Sophos Limited HUANG, CHENG-FENG 2497 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 24, 2024
18886147 AGGREGATING SECURITY EVENTS Sophos Limited MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 2432 Other Final Rejection Pending Sep 16, 2024
18823903 ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS CONNECTOR FOR CUSTOMER PREMISES Sophos Limited PARK, SANGSEOK 2499 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Sep 04, 2024
18823962 LOAD BALANCING FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE Sophos Limited SUH, ANDREW 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 04, 2024
18823936 WEBSOCKET SERVER FOR CLOUD-BASED ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS DATA PLANE Sophos Limited NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 2438 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 04, 2024
18772026 SECURE FIREWALL CONFIGURATIONS Sophos Limited ZARRINEH, SHAHRIAR 2496 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 12, 2024
18763507 RULES PROCESSING SYSTEM Sophos Limited ALI, AFAQ 2434 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 03, 2024
18653769 AGILE POLICY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Sophos Limited EYERS, DUSTIN D 2164 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 02, 2024
18517321 DETECTING TAMPERING WITH HOSTED SERVICES Sophos Limited PENA-SANTANA, TANIA M 2443 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
17480556 MALICIOUS MESSAGE DETECTION Sophos Limited HUSSEIN, HASSAN A 2497 §103 Final Rejection 79d Pending Sep 21, 2021
16129087 DYNAMIC FILTERING OF ENDPOINT EVENT STREAMS Sophos Limited SAVENKOV, VADIM 2432 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2018

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